Having strapped my helmet on and set my Biggies googles firmly on my nose, I looked up at Felix, my guide from Insiders Experience, and yelled, “Let’s go!”.With a satisfying roar, the Second World War-era Russian motorbike took off to cheers from the assembled audience and with me sat snugly in the sidecar. As we zoomed past Marrakech’s National Theatre and up the wide French boulevards of the new town, the air scented with orange blossom and the roses for which the city is famous, I righted my helmet and clung on.
I have lived in Morocco for eight years now and am always looking for new ways to experience it, as well as reliving old favourites. That is especially true of late. Morocco managed the Covid-19 pandemic well in many ways, keeping death rates relatively low and instituting an excellent vaccination scheme – the best in Africa. However, it has suffered horribly from the two-year hiatus in tourism, especially in and around Marrakech.
Before the pandemic hit, travellers flocked to the city and you would
